AirBreather

That’s beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba.

Real https://xkcd.com/567 vibes

all numbers are imaginary

It’s more complex than that

Yes, all of that, PLUS the impacts of this very related news which will make the impact even worse:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers

https://jabde.com/2025/10/24/bark-direction-and-ranging-barkdar-a-barko-location-method-for-neighborhood-threat-surveillance

Apples unite them all

I think you may have whooshed: this person was pointing out a “th” that slipped through.

Na

no that’s “Invisible”. “Invincible” means it can’t be divided

The “only 800mb of free RAM” was a reference to how much Windows was consuming before the switch to Linux

These are fun rabbit holes to go down. Everything here is true, of course: Big-O complexity isn’t everything, context always matters, and measurements trump guesses.

But also, how many times have you encountered a performance problem with a slow O(n) solution that you solved by turning it into a fast O(n²) solution, compared to the other way around? The difference between 721ns and 72.1ns is almost always irrelevant (and is irrelevant if it’s not on a hot path), and in all likelihood, the same can be said at n=500 (even 500x these numbers still doesn’t even reach 0.5ms).

So unless context tells me that I have a good reason to think otherwise, I’m writing the one that uses a hash-based collection. As the codebase evolves in the future and the same bits of code are used in novel situations, I am much less likely to regret leaving microseconds on the table at small input sizes than to regret leaving milliseconds or seconds on the table at large input sizes.

As a trained practicioner of “the deeper magics” myself, I feel the need to point out that there’s a reason why we call these types of things “the deeper magics”, and that’s because heuristics like “better Big-O means better performance” generally point you in the right direction when it matters, and the wrong direction when it doesn’t matter.

FOSTA-SESTA is at the heart of it, as I understand. I don’t want to elaborate much more because I don’t know nearly enough about the situation, but adding this search term helped make it make a little bit of sense to me.

Edit: not that I’m lumping these different ideas together, but that the prudish folks could theoretically use this legal framework to throw allegations that Visa/MasterCard would rather not have to defend against.

From the article:

Trump’s opposition to DSTs is not new: the Biden administration felt they disproportionately targeted US businesses and threatened 25 percent tariffs if they were not removed.

I’ve bought a few of these before (no affiliation) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCL7TJ48

Edit: this is a link to 1.5V rechargeable batteries, which I commented before OP’s edit acknowledging them.

James, while John had had “had”, had had “had had;” “had had” had had a greater effect on the teacher.

Pretty much just now, they rebranded to Legcord

I can’t even imagine how my friend would take it.

OK, OK, time out. You haven’t tried talking with them about it? If you have as strong a mutual (platonic(ish?)) relationship with them as you say you do, then it should be able to survive a serious conversation about your shared future, especially if you emphasize that you want to try to keep them in your life in a major way like this.

That conversation will probably be hard, and I really can’t think of a solution that would feel perfect if I were in your shoes, but I would sure as hell rather have that conversation than the “I made a decision, and here is how you will be impacted” one, or the “I kept my life on hold because I was worried how you might react to talking about it” one.

I don’t know your personality or your friend’s personality, so I can’t promise that you will sort it all out without emotions running high, or what the ultimate outcome of such a conversation will be.

But jeez, bud, you’ve GOT to be able to have serious talks with people whom you trust and care about.

Heartbleed

The term is Heisenbug

J K and L are shortcuts that work no matter what element within the player that your keyboard focus is on.